This is the page for Math 98, a six-week introduction to MATLAB intended as a supplement to Math 128A. Students are expected to have little or no prior experience with programming. Home

Announcements:

Lecture 2 will be held on Wednesday, September 5, at the usual time and location.

On account of the changed date for the lecture, the due date for Homework 1 will be pushed to Wednesday, September 5.

(Sept 10) The instructions for HW3 have been updated.

Class Time and Location:
Group 009 (Class 22439): Monday 3-4:30, B3A Evans
Group 010 (Class 22440): Monday 4:30-6, B3A Evans

Schedule:
This course will use the following books as its primary texts:

K Sayood (KS), Learning Programming Using MATLAB.

Otto and Denier (OD), An Introduction to Programming and Numerical Methods in MATLAB.
For further reference, try Essential MATLAB for Engineers and Scientists by Brian H Hahn and Daniel T Valentine, available for free to UC Berkeley students here.

Week	Topic	Reading	Notes	Code
Week 1: 27 Aug	I/O, logicals, if/else statements	KS 3, 4.1-4.5	Lecture 1	folder
Week 2: 5 Sept	Loops, vectors, functions	KS 5, 7 OD 1.4, 1.7, 2.1	Lecture 2	folder
Week 3: 10 Sept	Functions	OD 2.2 Mathworks I, II	Lecture 3	folder
Week 4: 17 Sept	Graphing	Documentation	Lecture 4	folder
Week 5: 24 Sept	Polynomials	OD 6	Lecture 5	folder
Week 6: 1 Oct	Matrices, Data	Cells, Tables	Lecture 6	folder

Passing the Course:
This is a 1-unit P/NP class. There are 6 homework assignments worth 2 points each, one due each week. A final project, worth 6 points, will be due later in the semester. A final score of 12/18 is needed to pass.

Assignments:
Each assignment will be due by 11:59pm on the given date. Submissions should be uploaded to bCourses.

Due Date	Assignment	Solutions
5 Sept	HW1
11 Sep	HW2
18 Sep	HW3
25 Sep	HW4
2 Oct	HW5
9 Oct	HW6
30 Oct	Final Project

Installing MATLAB:
You can download MATLAB here and obtain a student license here.